ristst:Didn't anyone see the X Files episode about this? Obviously subby did NOT....otherwise it would've been the Scary tag rather than the Stupid.

Halfway through the ep they had a roach crawl across the TV screen.

War of the Coprophages. One of my favs. The idea of sending a bunch of small, light, cheap incest size robots to explore every nook and cranny of alien worlds makes great economic and scientific sense.

dennysgod:ristst: Didn't anyone see the X Files episode about this? Obviously subby did NOT....otherwise it would've been the Scary tag rather than the Stupid.

Halfway through the ep they had a roach crawl across the TV screen.

War of the Coprophages. One of my favs. The idea of sending a bunch of small, light, cheap incest size robots to explore every nook and cranny of alien worlds makes great economic and scientific sense.

Whoah, I'd buy one if it came in a kit designed for short attention spans. 20 years ago I tried to build small robots using "memory wire" (nitinol) which was popular at the time. It required too much power and required DIY crimping to get it to connect to the circuitry. I thought it was going to be easy but coming up with the right lengths and getting the stupid wires (which can only contract under power) to pull the other wire back while supplying useful mechanical output was almost impossible.